I know people here are going to hate this idea, but non-competes could help alleviate this problem. Non-competes are clearly terrible for experienced employees

I know people here are going to hate this idea, but non-competes could help alleviate this problem. Non-competes are clearly terrible for experienced employees, but I think for those who are just trying to break into the industry, it can be helpful. If a company knows that their junior engineers aren't just going to up and leave as soon as they've completed spending a bunch of money to train them and are now useful, they'd be more willing to hire more of them. It took me three years from the time I completed a bootcamp to when I finally got a real software engineering job. Had I signed a contract that would've required me to work for a company for three years, I would've been in a much, much better situation.